Tech:NYC Digest: September 22

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

We’re back with another Friday edition of the Tech:NYC Digest, featuring our top five highlights in New York and New York tech this week.

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📰 Always worth a reminder: New York is a tech startup hotbed after almost a decade-long run of IPOs (CNBC)

• We could have told you this, but… The New York tech ecosystem is rapidly maturing. Annual capital deployed in New York over the past nine years has increased sevenfold, westcoast VCs have started setting up HQ2s here, the talent pool grows by the day, and alums of the city’s IPO successes are going on to found amazing companies.

🏢 Yes, we’re all here:

Are New Yorkers finally returning to the office? The data says yes (

Crains

)

• Office occupancy is up to more than 50% and subway ridership is too. Also, so many new spots to try for lunch! 

🚌 Public Transit Announcement:

Free Bus Service Starts Sunday on 5 Routes in New York City: A pilot program experimenting with new ways of making mass transit more accessible will let riders board without paying for at least six months. (

NYTimes

)

• Starting Sunday, the MTA will begin a pilot offering free routes in each of the city’s five boroughs with the aim of lifting ridership on mass transit to near prepandemic levels. Ride free on the following lines :

  • the Q4 bus in Queens

  • the B60 bus in Brooklyn

  • the M116 bus in Manhattan

  • the Bx18 bus in the Bronx

  • the S46 and the S96 buses, which count as one route, in Staten Island

🎶 New cultural institution alert:

Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in Queens: A museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home. (

NYMag

)

• We can’t wait to visit this gorgeous museum dedicated to the life of Louis Armstrong in Corona. The glimmering building is jazzy, cool, and filled with treasures from Armstrong’s life. Also, maybe build-in time to have lunch at Corona Plaza. 

WE ❤️ NYC:

The Off-Kilter Beauty of the City’s Shabby, Singular Storefronts And the photographers who made it their life’s work to document them. (

NYMag

)

• Change is good, but scrolling through NYC’s neighborhood landmarks is even better.

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